diff --git a/requirements_test.txt b/requirements_test.txt
index 82ff691db2..955c620062 100644
--- a/requirements_test.txt
+++ b/requirements_test.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ coverage~=7.6
 tbump~=6.11.0
 contributors-txt>=1.0.0
 pytest-cov~=5.0
-pytest-profiling~=1.7
 pytest-xdist~=3.6
 six
 # Type packages for mypy
diff --git a/tests/profile/test_profile_against_externals.py b/tests/profile/test_profile_against_externals.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b646ede901..0000000000
--- a/tests/profile/test_profile_against_externals.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-"""Profiles basic -jX functionality."""
-
-# Licensed under the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
-# For details: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/blob/main/LICENSE
-# Copyright (c) https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
-
-# pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import os
-import pprint
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import pytest
-from git.repo import Repo
-
-from pylint.testutils import GenericTestReporter as Reporter
-from pylint.testutils._run import _Run as Run
-
-
-def _get_py_files(scanpath: str) -> list[str]:
-    assert os.path.exists(scanpath), f"Dir not found {scanpath}"
-
-    filepaths: list[str] = []
-    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(scanpath):
-        dirnames[:] = [dirname for dirname in dirnames if dirname != "__pycache__"]
-        filepaths.extend(
-            [
-                os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
-                for filename in filenames
-                if filename.endswith(".py")
-            ]
-        )
-    return filepaths
-
-
-@pytest.mark.skipif(
-    not os.environ.get("PYTEST_PROFILE_EXTERNAL", False),
-    reason="PYTEST_PROFILE_EXTERNAL, not set, assuming not a profile run",
-)
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "name,git_repo", [("numpy", "https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git")]
-)
-def test_run(tmp_path: Path, name: str, git_repo: str) -> None:
-    """Runs pylint against external sources."""
-    checkoutdir = tmp_path / name
-    checkoutdir.mkdir()
-    Repo.clone_from(url=git_repo, to_path=checkoutdir, depth=1)
-    filepaths = _get_py_files(scanpath=str(checkoutdir))
-    print(f"Have {len(filepaths)} files")
-
-    runner = Run(filepaths, reporter=Reporter(), exit=False)
-
-    print(
-        f"Had {len(filepaths)} files with {len(runner.linter.reporter.messages)} messages"
-    )
-    pprint.pprint(runner.linter.reporter.messages)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 82ee65da37..e44d81759f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -84,14 +84,3 @@ commands =
     --benchmark-autosave {toxinidir}/tests \
     --benchmark-group-by="group" \
     {posargs:}
-
-[testenv:profile_against_external]
-setenv =
-    PYTEST_PROFILE_EXTERNAL = 1
-deps =
-    -r {toxinidir}/requirements_test.txt
-    gprof2dot
-commands =
-    pytest --exitfirst \
-    --profile-svg \
-    {toxinidir}/tests/profile/test_profile_against_externals.py